Word: salween
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...Perhaps Heart of Darkness is an inescapable influence. But as Mason settles into his tale, the Victorian stuffiness melts. Drake, a confused man too modern for his time, takes the Burma assignment to escape the strictures of imperialist London. He makes a surreal journey to a village on the Salween River, where he meets Surgeon-Major Anthony Carroll?this story's Kurtz. After several months in Carroll's polymathic world of specimen collections and local power struggles, Drake is forced to flee. The Piano Tuner ends gracefully, if vaguely, with Drake's final escape from the dilemma of choosing between...